Car's sickness..the cause is so simple?

Hey guys I was just wondering... I'm 19 yo and i've always been a car's sickenesser, I mean you know , nausea , heartbeat , and cold sweat.. it happens 6 times on 10 when I'm inside a car, since i was very little..I was just wondering.. nature concepted man without thinking about car, so without thinking about great/high speed.. so the DNA'S of people who are suffering of this "disturb" is just not adapted to "artificial" speed, can it be right?

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I'm not so sure about the evolutionary theory; after all, we also evolved brains capable of developing forms of conveyance that move faster than running. And motion sickness can happen at very slow speeds too (like in a person-powered boat). However, as a onetime sufferer, I have a tip that might help.

It works for me to fix my gaze on the horizon in front of me--wherever the sky meets the land (or water). The key is to ensure that the sensory input your eyes receive matches those your body (particularly your inner ears) senses. This works best with the view directly in front of you in the direction of travel, so try your best to get the front seat, and keep your eyes fixed straight ahead. Gives you an excellent excuse to always ride shotgun ;-)

The speed seems less important than the disconnect between the motion itself that the body senses, and the information the eyes take in. I've always wondered if people who lose their vision experience motion sickness, and how they adapt.

I've always suffered from mild motion sickness too. The weirdest thing though...when I was pregnant, I never had a case of it. For some reason, being pregnant cured me. So is there a hormonal connection?

The last time I had a horrible case of it was after a night of lots of red wine and I made the mistake of trying to text. As anyone who gets motion sickness knows, trying to read or navigate a map can be disastrous, and I seriously thought I was going to puke all over the place. I barely made it home.

But yes, we did not evolve being able to make sense of our bodies hurtling through space at high speeds. But we have to be careful here. That's not necessarily WHY. Evolution has no "why," only what works at a given time for certain reasons. But because there is no particular survival benefit for speed, motion sickness will probably always exist, continuing to piggyback along, a physical consequence of our evolutionary development. Our transportation will change long before our brains possibly could.